Thirty-Minute Theatre

Seasons

1965

6.9

Anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Parson's Pleasure

An unscrupulous antiques dealer with a method for acquiring invaluable antiques in the countryside, stumbles upon a priceless chair owned by a less than cooperative family.

S1 • E2

Give the Clown His Supper

Failure to win in a television quiz proves too much for Stuart and Patricia Pendleton.

S1 • E3

Portrait of a Madonna

S1 • E4

Pay as You Go

S1 • E5

Monica

Simon is trying to convince his mistress, Monica, to leave her husband by staging a suicide. But instead of Monica showing up, a stranger appears, who helps him to carry out the suicide he was staging at the beginning of the play.

S1 • E6

Love in Triplicate

S1 • E7

Application Form

The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft

S1 • E8

The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft

S1 • E9

Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat

Mrs. Bixby, a dentist's wife, goes alone once a month to the country "to see her aunt"; she's secretly visiting her lover, the Colonel. But when he gives her an expensive coat, she has to devise a way of explaining it to her husband.

S1 • E10

Mr. Ponge

S1 • E11

That's Not My Name

S1 • E12

Family Christmas

S1 • E13

The Passenger

S1 • E14

The Flipside

S1 • E15

The Enchanted Night

S1 • E16

Four-Way Incident

S1 • E17

Brothers

S1 • E18

Janni! Oh Janni!

S1 • E19

The Sugar Cubes

S1 • E20

Case Suspended

S1 • E21

Ships of the Line

S1 • E22

Keep on Running

S1 • E23

Not for Just an Hour

S1 • E24

'Twas on a Sunday

S1 • E25

Magnolia Summer

S1 • E26

A Girl's Best Friend

S1 • E27

Emergency Ward 9

In this medical drama for the BBC's THIRTY MINUTE THEATER series, a doctor is helpless as an old man dies in pain. In the same ward, three other patients of different backgrounds attempt to deal with the old man's death.